12-23-2024, 07:02 PM
The great actor and director Denzel Washington became a licensed minister at the historic Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in Harlem this weekend, a church he attended as a child. His father had also been a minister. Denzel turns 70 this week. "It took a while, but I'm finally here," he told the congregation. He also received water baptism at the ceremony.
Reports describe a licensed minister in the Church of God in Christ denomination (COGIC), a more than a century old Pentecostal denomination with predominantly African American membership, as an in-training status which enables its holder to become an ordained minister or elder in the future.
It's great news for Washington, who discusses his faith in a recent oral history in Esquire: "Things I said about God when I was a little boy, just reciting them in church along with everybody else, I know now."
And it's a refreshing change from the many times media report a celebrity has become a minister, and it turns out to be an online ordination with little or no quality control.
Reports describe a licensed minister in the Church of God in Christ denomination (COGIC), a more than a century old Pentecostal denomination with predominantly African American membership, as an in-training status which enables its holder to become an ordained minister or elder in the future.
It's great news for Washington, who discusses his faith in a recent oral history in Esquire: "Things I said about God when I was a little boy, just reciting them in church along with everybody else, I know now."
And it's a refreshing change from the many times media report a celebrity has become a minister, and it turns out to be an online ordination with little or no quality control.
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